Federal Civil Rights Charge Conviction
By Cletus Ernster
The United States Department of Justice (”DOJ”) announced in a July 29, 2009 Press Release that a federal jury in Orlando, Florida found a Bureau of Prisons corrections officer guilty on felony federal civil rights charges related to a fatal assault on an inmate in March 2005. According to the DOJ Press Release, the corrections officer was convicted on two charges, one count of conspiring to violate the federal civil rights of an inmate and a second count of violating the inmate’s civil rights by arranging for another inmate to conduct an assault on the inmate. Each count carries a sentence of up to life imprisonment and a $250,000.00 fine. See, DOJ Press Releases, July 29, 2009, www.usdoj.gov .
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